From Michael J. Tomlinson, CEO and President, BDI The single most affirming and encouraging insight from the past several months for me is this: people really care. They care about their safety, about the health of their loved ones, about the news, about the future and about the hurting people in...
As we all continue to feel the wide-ranging effects of the COVID-19 health crisis, I’m sure your organization is feeling the stress and perhaps even frustration of being unable to run your services and programs as usual. I know many of the Rescue Missions we work with at Brewer Direct...
From Shellie Speer, Senior VP, Brewer Academy, BDI [custom_font font_family='Azo Sans' font_size='18' line_height='26' font_style='none' text_align='left' font_weight='300' color='' background_color='#d7eee7' text_decoration='none' text_shadow='no' padding='20px' margin='0px']A note from Shellie: As we all continue to feel the wide-ranging effects of the COVID-19 health crisis, I’m sure your organization is feeling the stress and perhaps even frustration...
From Shellie Speer, Senior VP, Brewer Academy, BDI Do you know how best to communicate with your donors? How about your loved ones? I recently heard a story from a 20-year-old about how she sent a text message to her grandma… and got a handwritten letter in the mail a...
From Michael Tomlinson, CEO and President, BDI Over the past six months, I’ve traversed this beautiful country of ours and met with many of our valued ministry partners and the national networks, leadership communities, research institutions, and think tanks that govern and serve in philanthropy – specifically, within the Christian nonprofit...
[vc_video link='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRQzDH7bMis'] Watch our new Summit video and learn more about how we can help you reach the peak in your digital fundraising performance. Is your digital fundraising an uphill battle or riding high? Let us know @brewerdirect! ...
How do you get to the top of the digital fundraising mountain? According to Blackbaud’s 2015 Charitable Giving Report, just 7.1% of nonprofits’ individual giving came through digital channels. So digital is still a small percentage of total income for many nonprofits. But! Online giving grew 9.2% in 2015 compared to 2014. For...
A few weeks ago, members of our Account Services Team headed to Dallas for the annual AGRM Conference. Not only did President/CEO Randy Brewer, Executive VP/Client Strategic Development Shellie Speer and VP/Client Services Lead Lolly Colombo lead a workshop on the results of our national study, “More than Meals on Appeals?”...